Mark Buehrle visit today kicks off busy week for Marlins

As if meetings with Jose Reyes and Yoenis Cespedes weren’t enough, the Marlins will kick off a busy week today by meeting with pitcher Mark Buehrle, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com.

Larry Beinfest, the Marlins’ baseball operations president, said last week that upgrading the starting rotation was the team’s top priority this winter.
Buehrle, 32, played for new Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen with the White Sox, but Rosenthal reports that Buehrle, a native of St. Charles, Mo., might prefer to stay in the Midwest.

Buehrle was 13-9 with a 3.51 ERA in 31 starts in 2011. He has logged at least 200 innings in each of his last 11 seasons. He made $14 million last year.

The Marlins will reportedly meet with Reyes on Wednesday — in Miami, as with Buehrle today — and with Cespedes on Thursday in the Dominican Republic.

On Friday, the franchise will officially change its name from Florida Marlins to Miami Marlins in a ceremony at the new ballpark. So far, it looks like the roster is in for major changes, too…